End of life issues
By: Colleen Counsell, guest editor.
Contributors: Counsell, Colleen.
Series: Critical care nursing clinics of North America -- v. 14, no. 2
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Terminal care; Palliative treatment; Intensive care nursing; Critical care medicine; Life and death, Power over -- Moral and ethical aspects; Death -- Psychological aspects
Notes: "June 2002."

Spine series title: Critical care nursing clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The emergence of palliative care : a new specialized field of medicine requiring an interdisciplinary approach / Betty A. Ditillo; title: The integration of palliative care and critical care : one vision, one voice / Cynda Hylton Rushton ... [et al.]; title: Legal and ethical issues in end-of-life care / Ferne C. Kyba; title: Ethics in the ICU / Sarah B. Vittone; title: Ethical issues in pain management / Sharon LaDuke; title: Spiritual care at the end of life / Mary Lou O'Gorman; title: Family presence during resuscitation / Terry L. Tucker; title: Exploring family needs during withdrawal of life support in critically ill patients / Colleen Counsell; title: Withdrawal of nutritional support in the terminally ill / Anne M. Schwarte; title: End of life care in the ICU : current practice and future hopes / Margaret L. Campbell; title: Promoting a peaceful death in the ICU / Karin T. Kirchhoff; title: Pediatric palliative care : a family-centered model for critical care / Mary Jo Gilmer; title: Patient and community education in advance directives / Christine M. Basile.